From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: robinb@ruffnready.co.uk (Robin Birch) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:20:35 +0000 Subject: [pups] Bootable media for 2.11BSD In-Reply-To: <000501c2ce81$84244df0$450010ac@dawabbit> References: <000501c2ce81$84244df0$450010ac@dawabbit> Message-ID: Use the maketape program in the sys/pdpstand directory. You can build this on most things and use it to create a bootable tape with the standalone system which contains all of the tools to set the system up. Cheers Robin In message <000501c2ce81$84244df0$450010ac at dawabbit>, Ian King writes >I think I've done enough homework and legwork to feel like I can ask the >list a question now. :-) I've acquired an 11/73 and want to install >2.11BSD on it; it includes a TK50 and RX33. I also have a DECstation >5000/200 with a TK50, so my first efforts were to dd the files onto a tape. >Depending on how I hacked around, I either got a "non-bootable media" error >or "Error 21 - drive error". The two ways I tried to put the boot files on >were per the instructions (cat mtboot mtboot boot | dd), and not per the >instructions (dd mtboot, dd mtboot, dd boot). Depending on how I hacked >around, I either got a "non-bootable media" error or "Error 21 - drive >error" from the boot ROM monitor. > >With no way to troubleshoot the TK50 drive, I then tried to put at least a >boot sector on a 1.2MB floppy, using rawrite on a PC; I copied mtboot + >mtboot + boot to an intermediate file, then used rawrite to put that on the >floppy. I got the same "Error 21". > >The machine also has a working RD54 containing Micro/RSX and some >proprietary software for managing a parking lot. :-) I can boot to an RSX >prompt (although I can't log in, having none of the passwords), so most of >the machine appears to be working. > >While there's a stubborn side that wants to figure out how to build bootable >media :-) I'd also be happy at this point to get a copy of a bootable TK50; >I have blank tapes.... Either way, I hope someone can point me in the right >direction. Thanks in advance -- Ian > >_______________________________________________ >PUPS mailing list >PUPS at minnie.tuhs.org >http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/pups -- Robin Birch